What are the prime characteristics of Behavior Driven Development?

These days I am hearing a word frequently - BDD or Behavior Driven Development.

So I want to kno开发者_Python百科w what are the prime characteristics of BDD and how it differs from traditional programming?

Thanks

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Did you at least google it?) prime characteristics are easy to find stuff... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior_Driven_Development